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African Potato Association

The APA’s core objective is to promote production and utilization of potato and sweetpotato for food and nutrition security in Africa. Additionally, the APA facilitates knowledge sharing by bringing together diverse stakeholders in the potato sector across Africa. Drawing scientists, practitioners and entrepreneurs from over 20 African countries and abroad, the APA members cover an extensive range of research and development of the promising crops.

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The Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), Rwanda Agricultural and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) and the International Potato Center (CIP) will cohost the 11th triennial African Potato Association (APA) conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference will run from 25th to 29th August 2019 at the Kigali Marriott Hotel. The first day (25th August) will include

Scientists find Secret in Sweetpotato, Eat them or Miss out.

You may have shovelled down those sweet potatoes on your plate. Others have never allowed sweet potatoes on their plate. It is a common phenomenon that sweet potatoes are traditionally considered food for low income earners on the lowest position of the social status ladder. That is an absurdity, according to food scientists. They argue

Could Sweetpotato be a Solution to Africa’s Insecurity, Malnutrition?

Dr. Jan Low is an agricultural economist at International Potato Center in Kenya, with over years of experience working in sub-Saharan Africa. Her long-term research interest is on how to successfully integrate nutritional concerns into agricultural research and development with a special focus on micronutrient-enhanced orange-fleshed sweetpotato. While in Kigali to organize the African Potato